Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search
The UK’s competition regulator has introduced new rules for Google search to protect publishers' content from being used in AI-generated results. These regulations aim to enhance publishers' negotiating power with Google and ensure proper attribution of their work. The CMA is monitoring the implementation of these changes and plans to take further action if necessary.
- ▪The Competition and Markets Authority has imposed new conduct requirements on Google search.
- ▪Publishers will have stronger negotiating power regarding their content used in AI features.
- ▪Google must provide clear links to publisher content in AI-generated search results.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | The Register |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/06/03/citation-please-uk-regulator-slaps-google-with-new-publishing-rules-for-search/5250544 |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:05:00 +0200 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T12:07:04.822Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T12:07:04.822Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | junGLLCsHnm0 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); Legal Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search Action follows Chocolate Factory's changes to AI search results Lindsay Clark Lindsay Clark Published wed 3 Jun 2026 // 13:05 UTC The UK’s competition regulator has imposed new rules for Google search, in a bid to help publishers prevent their work from appearing in AI Overview results as well as to get links to their work instated in AI results.
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